Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal Value Package (includes Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader)

Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal

Summary

Presenting key selections from an array of original sources and a wide range of ideological visions,Ideals and Ideologiesputs students directly in touch with the thinkers and the ideas that have shaped our world. This new edition of Ball & Dagger's celebrated reader includes a generous sampling of key thinkers across the various traditions, presented within the intellectual and political context in which the thinkers thought and wrote. This reader is organized to work seamlessly with its companion textbook,Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, providing rigorous, comprehensive coverage of political ideologies and modern political thought.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Seventh Edition

p. ix

About the Editors

p. xi

Introduction

p. xiii

The Concept of Ideology

p. 1

Terrell Carver-Ideology: The Career of a Concept

p. 3

The Democratic Ideal

p. 11

Euripides-Democracy and Despotism

p. 14

Pericles-Funeral Oration

p. 16

Aristotle-Democratic Judgment and the "Middling" Constitution

p. 21

Niccolo Machiavelli-What's Wrong with Princely Rule?

p. 26

John Adams-What Is a Republic?

p. 30

Bill of Rights of the United States

p. 36

Alexis de Tocqueville-Democracy and Equality

p. 38

John Stuart Mill-Democratic Participation and Political Education

p. 46

Danielle Allen-Democracy and the Power of Education

p. 53

Liberalism

p. 61

Thomas Hobbes-The State of Nature and the Basis of Obligation

p. 64

John Locke-Toleration and Government

p. 71

Thomas Paine-Government, Rights, and the Freedom of Generations

p. 87

Declaration of Independence of the United States

p. 91

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens

p. 94

Adam Smith-Private Profit, Public Good

p. 97

Immanuel Kant-Freedom and Enlightenment

p. 100

John Stuart Mill-Liberty and Individuality

p. 103

William Graham Sumner-According to the Fitness of Things

p. 110

T. H. Green-Liberalism and Positive Freedom

p. 114

Donald Allen-Paternalism vs. Democracy: A Libertarian View

p. 118

Murray Rothbard-Libertarian Anarchism

p. 123

Philip Selznick-The Communitarian Persuasion

p. 127

Conservatism

p. 133

Edmund Burke-Society, Reverence, and the "True Natural Aristocracy"

p. 135

Joseph de Maistre-Conservatism as Reaction

p. 142

William Wordsworth-The Poet as Conservative

p. 146

Jose Ortega y Gasset-Revolt of the Masses

p. 149

Michael Oakeshott-On Being Conservative

p. 153

Robert H. Bork-Modern Liberalism and Cultural Decline

p. 162

Irving Kristol-The Neoconservative Persuasion

p. 170

James Dobson-Standing Strong in a Confused Culture

p. 174

W. James Antle, III-The Conservative Crack-Up

p. 183

Socialism and Communism: More to Marx

p. 189

Thomas More-Utopia

p. 191

Robert Owen-Address to the Inhabitants of New Lanark

p. 198

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels-The Communist Manifesto

p. 202

Karl Marx-On the Materialist Conception of History

p. 215

Socialism and Communism After Marx

p. 217

Eduard Bernstein-Evolutionary Socialism

p. 220

V. I. Lenin-Revisionism, Imperialism, and Revolution

p. 226

Leon Trotsky-The Permanent Revolution

p. 239

Mao Zedong-On the People's Democratic Dictatorship

p. 244

Mikhail Bakunin-Anarcho-Communism vs. Marxism

p. 254

Emma Goldman-Anarchism: What It Really Stands For

p. 257

Edward Bellamy-Looking Backward

p. 266

Michael D. Yates-Can the Working Class Change the World?

p. 276

Fascism

p. 285

Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau-Civilization and Race

p. 287

Benito Mussolini-The Doctrine of Fascism

p. 294

Alfredo Rocco-The Political Theory of Fascism

p. 302

Adolf Hitler-Nation and Race

p. 308

Liberation Ideologies and the Politics of Identity

p. 325

Martin Luther King Jr.-Letter from Birmingham Jail

p. 328

Steve Biko-Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity

p. 339

Mary Wollstonecraft-A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

p. 345

Olympe de Gouges-Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen